Parent Information Evening School Reports Reports 1927 What

Parent Information Evening School Reports

Reports: 1927 What do you think about this type of report?

1967 And this? Name: Mary Smith End of year 1968 Marks Effort Comment Reading 66% B Oral language 70% B Written Language 75% B Needs to read every night Needs to listen Tries hard Handwriting 95% A Arithmetic 65% B Social Studies 80% B Neat and tidy Needs to learn her tables Nature Study 81% B Manual 95% A Works well Art 25% D Music 50% C Phys Ed 60% C Needs to listen Participate s Tries hard Place in Class: 3 rd

1986: What’s good and bad here?

2000: More information than ever Portfolios. Sample books. Goal setting. Oral reports with children showing parents what they have been doing and have achieved. • 3 way conferencing with parents and students helping with setting the goals. • Testing becomes more standardised – PATs, spelling, numeracy project. NEMP, ARB… Results are used to show teachers what the students already know and what they need to learn next. • •

What does standardised mean? • Using the same test for all the students in an age group. • Marking it exactly the same way • Trialled over a lot of groups to get the average range – this being where most students fall, with some above and some below. • Follows the curve of natural distribution. • Tested and updated as necessary.

What is the best way to mark standardised tests? • A. Stanines • Raw score – what the student gets right out of the total • Compare to age • Scale it • Convert it to a score between 1 -9. These are understood world wide. • B. Compare with real age • C. Describe which stage the child is at. Stanines 9 = 2. 5% 8 = 5% 7 = 10% 6 = 15% 5 = 35% 4 = 15% 3 = 10% 2 = 5% 1 = 2. 5%

Standardized Tests that We Use: • • • • PAT: Progressive Achievement test STAR: Standardized tests for Assessment of reading PROBE: Prose Reading Observation, Behaviour and Evaluation. Running Records: Reading test to find the student’s optimum reading level for ongoing learning. 6 year NET: Test given around the 6 th birthday to analyse a student’s reading strengths and weaknesses. GLOSS: Global Strategy Stage (in numeracy) as. TTLe: Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning JAM: Junior Maths Assessment IKAN: Individual Knowledge Assessment of Number Strands: Sub-headings within a subject. Eg: Mathematics is made up of Strand 1. Number and Algebra Strand 2. Geometry and Measurement Strand 3. Statistics SWST: Single Work Spelling Test

How We Use Them • To put students in the best groups for reading writing and maths • To compare progress year by year. • To write reports. We collect the results of all the tests and look at the classroom work that the child usually can achieve. This then is compared to the MOE National Standards. We then work out the best fit result for this child.

Writing Reports Today • Need to describe how your child compares to the National Standards. • We need to outline what your child’s next steps are. • We need to give some ideas for how parents can help. • At Kaiwaka School we like to give you the information we have about your child. • At Kaiwaka School we describe your child’s personal strengths. • At Kaiwaka School we ask the children to describe their own progress twice a year.

Sample Reports • Teachers to show the different sorts of tests. • Any questions